My wife(Isles fan) asked me what's up with Helm's stash and I told her to check out Clutterbuck's 1970's porn stash atrocity....I won. This game was a bit sloppy but man Detroit poured it on in the second half of the game especially thanks to Helm. Star Wars: "These ARE the Wings you are looking for...move along...move along." Nice to see Jimmy now knows there's gonna be a goalie controversy if he didn't step his game up and he did. Alfredsson is a beast by the way. Keep it up guys!

Since I only had the feed here and the tsn gametracker, was Howard average en route to his shutout? Also, can anybody break down the third pd goals for me? Thanks in advance.

No, Howard made several good saves in the 1st when it was still tight, and the D coughed up several brutal turnovers to Islanders in the slot throughout the game. It wasn't 1998 Hasek-in-Buffalo-49-save-shutout good, but it was a good performance.

3rd was a great stretch pass up the middle by Smith to a streaking Alfie who went high glove.

4th goal was 2on1, Franzen cross-ice to Nyquist who wristed it top corner far side.

5th goal was shot by Kronner, hit Abdelkader, cleared off the line and Alfie put it home.

"If I can be totally honest, it's not a lot of guys you get impressed by. Actually, it's no one else but him. From the bench, to see what move he makes -- you're like, 'I wish I could do that.' Sometimes you sit on the bench and just think, 'wow,' and you look over to the other bench and they sit there and shake their heads, too. He has great, great skills. I'm probably not going to play with another player who has the kind of skills he has." Mikael Samuelsson on Pavel Datsyuk

Missed the game thanks to a gorgeaus candle light dinner nice victory but let's not get ahead here, a winning streak is needed. Hopefully some call ups against the Sens, this s a game were I don't care about the points.

The Offseason of truth ...

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blank cheque for The Captain or Jim Star Nil please..

<< Win it for Mr. Hockey ! f*** this league THANK YOU BABS FOR 10 MARVELLOUS YEARS

I'd trade him for a rental player at the deadline at this point. If we spent that 5M a year on a defensemen we'd be a serious contender. Instead we have an average 4th line center. Good thing is we don't need him at all

I wanna say sorry to Jimmy our Goalie for not believing in him. Thank you Jimmy for shutting out the NYI Tonight 5-0!! : ) I am so proud of our Team!! There better than the 2002 Detroit Red Wings!! And I wanna say sorry to #11 as will!! Sorry for not believing in you as will!! Now it's time to Beat Ottawa for the First time this year!! Let's Go Red Wings!! : )